Tag: "Camera"
What Symbian features could you not live without?
A lot has been made of Nokia’s recent decision to eschew their current smartphone ecosystem strategy in favor of a Microsoft based approach. Having done a detailed impressions post and published a list of my gripes with the current state of the Windows Phone software and ecosystem, I felt it’d be important to gauge the [...]
Doubting how good the camera on the N8 is?
Following on from Jay’s post on the N8 being used to shoot the cover of Pix magazine’s Dec-Jan issue, Steve Litchfield shared a video made by a normal user like us using the N8′s camera. My initial impression was wow, followed immediately by a feeling of being duped, then amazement when I realized that [...]
Video: Nokia N8 Replaces DSLR for Pix Magazine Dec-Jan Front Cover shoot
So here’s the Nokia N8 again taking on some professional work: Replacing a DSLR for a magazine shoot! There’s a 9 minute video accompanying this post that shows the entire process: Initial worries about the N8 << but they go on to say it’s not the equipment, it’s the technique. But it still has to [...]
Video: Pitch Black video recording with Nokia N8 and a Ring Light
Camera Guru extraordinaire Jan van der Meer has another great tip for N8 users (well all camera phone users in general). For extreme low light the Nokia N8 has a Xenon Flash. But what about video? There’s no LED light, and even if it was there they’re almost usually pants for anything other than shooting [...]
Damien Dinning Dispels the myth and misconceptions behind Full Focus cameras #C7 #E7
[See C7 gallery] Nokia’s Damien Dinning, Imaging wizard, has written a comprehensive post about Nokia’s Full Focus camera to educate and dispel about the myths and misconceptions about cameras without autofocus (as seen in slim E7 and C7 – C6-01 too though slimness debatable). Full focus – low tech – v – simple? “it could [...]
Video: Nokia N8 Camera/Film School – Hollywood Lighting tips
Latest in the series – something often overlooked though being rather crucial – lighting. Really great tip: Set N8 Video to black and white – not for recording but optimising the light source. This is so you won’t get distracted by the colours. 3 point lighting – backlight, keylight and fill light. This is what [...]
Photos: New 12MP samples from the Nokia N8 (4000×3000)
Looks like ricardore uploaded some new pictures. Here’s some samples below. Some are out of focus unfortunately. The rest of the pictures are on his Nokia N8 set. Remember this is taken with a Nokia N8 prototype. via: Taken and uploaded on flickr by ricardore
Story of the Nokia N8's incredible camera (Superb Butterfly shot :o so much detail!!)
Since the 7650 I’ve been hooked on mobile phone photography. I remember at the time my Dad said, that’s just a gimmick. My mum said it wouldn’t catch on. From the 7610, to Nseries and the Carl Zeiss partnership, Nokia has been pushing imaging to not just being a camera phone but a phone equipped [...]
Story of the Nokia N8's incredible camera (Superb Butterfly shot :o so much detail!!)
Since the 7650 I’ve been hooked on mobile phone photography. I remember at the time my Dad said, that’s just a gimmick. My mum said it wouldn’t catch on. From the 7610, to Nseries and the Carl Zeiss partnership, Nokia has been pushing imaging to not just being a camera phone but a phone equipped [...]
Video: Nokia N900 Camera Interface – why it's better than what's on the N97
Like much of Nokia’s line up, the Nokia N900 has a 5MP camera with dual LED flash. What sets it slightly apart from all the rest is the revamped camera controls, minimising the need for necessary button presses that Nokia’s put us through before. I’ve talked about what I love in the N900′s camera, shown [...]
Nokia N900 – Photo Samples and Maemo5 camera UI – London Part 2
Here is the remaining photos from my weekend in London.[part 1] The N900 has a 5mp camera – 4:3 ratio at 2576×1936. It also takes widescreen 16:9 images at 2576×1488 (3.5MP). Although 5MP is higher detail, I prefer the framing of the 16:9 photos. They look better when viewing on the N900 and on the computer. [...]
Nokia N900 – Can you do the Fandango? Photo and Video Samples – London – Part 1
Just got back from London, and after an extremely eventful weekend I am minutes from crashing into my bed for a well deserved snooze fest. I’ll leave you with a quick [indoor] camera/video sample at Covent Garden of a group called “Fandango”, just to demonstrate the video recording quality/audio quality as well as photo quality [...]
Videos: Nokia N900 Camera, media app; contacts, calendar tasks; web browser; phone functionality and general walkthrough by Matthew Miller
Mattew Miller from Nokia Experts has unleashed a tsunami of N900 videos going through each topic in much detail. You may have seen similar videos before, but the N900 with Maemo 5 is such a new platform for Nokia as a phone; there’s much for everyone to learn – good/bad/improvements necessary – from avid bloggers [...]
Video: Nokia N900 Video Samples (low light – and also a 16:9 photo sample)
(Low Light) Video Samples from the Nokia N900. Note, the N900 is not yet at final production software. Also, if you’re watching this within the first few hours of me posting, YouTube may not yet have converted it properly yet. Update: If the video playback appears choppy, it does NOT look like that in the [...]
Video: Samples of the Nokia N86's impressive DIGITAL zoom
Earlier in July, the All About Symbian crew discovered a rather brilliant feature in the N86 that was never spoken about by Nokia. Real, usable digital zoom that preserved much more detail than previous/standard methods. James Burland from Nokia Creative, using the Steve’s same N86 shows us again exactly how good that zoom is in [...]
Self harming Nokia N97 lens cover: Automatic lens cover in future please?!
An issue that has been brought up by many N97 users is how the lens cover for the N97 actually scratches the N97. So much so that it’s reached the What Mobile guys who’ve asked Nokia for a statement to explain why this is happening to the N97. Whilst after a month of usage I [...]
Nokia N86 Review by Rafe Blandford
If there was one person in this world I would trust on having an overwhelming understanding of Nokia and Symbian, it would be Rafe blandford. What Rafe doesn’t know about Symbian isn’t really worth knowing. You may have read his review of the Nokia N86 already, but if you haven’t, please check it out >>click<< [...]
Nokia N97 Camera Test
James Burland of Nokia Creative is putting the Nokia N97 (which he helped his work colleague win from the Search for N… contest) through a series of rigorous tests. Notice in the colour shots how much more vibrant the colours are from the N97 than the N95 8GB, particularly the yellows reds and pinks. Also [...]
Video Samples: Nokia N97 vs Samsung i8910
720p on the Samsung i8910 looks stunning, more detail,crisper, at times more natural looking colours. However, the sound is absolutely dreadful, resembling the tinny audio quality of 2004 handsets – this may still be fixed though. The N97′s video also performs very well, some slight over saturation in parts – it also just doesn’t look [...]
Nokia N97 Sample Photos!
Now the N97 is by no way a Camera oriented device; not in today’s standards anyway (Grrr, Nokia!!) but 5MP Carl Zeiss isn’t too shabby at all. Below are some image samples said to have been taken by the N97. I say “said” as it looks astonishingly good compared to previous photo samples we’ve seen [...]
Nokia N82: Early Morning at the Park
This morning, I took out the N82 along with the N82 to the park so I could check it out during the day. Last night, the N82 showed some prowess when it came to its night/low light conditions. It is by far, the best Nokia phone for low lighting conditions. (More testing is going to [...]
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